Phone calls from Westcott Hull

BlushingRose

Hi,

Today I came to discover two missed calls from a Hull number. After looking online, it appears that it's Westcott DCA. I've seen some bad stuff about them elsewhere, should we be worried?

poppasmurf_bewdley

Only if you owe someone money that you haven't paid back.

BlushingRose

Well, we're on a DMP so yeah, we owe people money....

Buzby

They offer this statement:

"Why have I been contacted?

We have contacted you to recover an outstanding debt, or we have been commissioned to locate you to enable our client to re-establish contact with you.

If you think we have contacted you in error please call us.

Our aim is to enable you to fulfil your agreement as swiftly as possible by repaying your outstanding debt, either immediately in full or by making an arrangement with us to repay your debt in manageable instalments.

It is in all of our interests to resolve this situation as soon as possible, so we offer a fast online payment service to enable you to do that. We do appreciate, however, that full payment may not always be possible in which case we urge individuals who have received correspondence from us to call us immediately to resolve this situation by coming to an acceptable, manageable payment plan.

We are here to help you resolve your debt problems, but we cannot do so unless you contact us. Ignoring our correspondence may eventually lead to further action.

Talk to us and we will work with you to resolve this situation."

BlushingRose

As I say, I've just heard scary things about them and I'm a bit concerned about that. If they're simply acting on behalf of one of our creditors then that's a bit different, I guess.

sunday_girl

Our Halifax debt was sold to Wescott. We got numerous calls/answerphone messages from them initially but once they had been contacted by Payplan with our repayment offer (same as we had already been paying to Halifax) all was fine and the phone calls stopped.

BlushingRose

Thanks sunday_girl, I hope the same happens for us

happy_bunny_2

They also act on behalf of clients such as Santander. I say this as I have plenty of letters from them regarding accounts still with Santander.

And RBS.

rizla_king

Typical DCA. Bluff and bullsh!t